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California Boosts Paid Family Leave and Disability Benefits to Record Levels for New Claims Filed in 2025
SACRAMENTO—California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) today announced a major boost in Paid Family Leave and ...
Newsom touts ‘major boost’ to paid leave for Californians. How will it help workers?
This is another example of California leading the way in supporting workers, creating a more affordable California, and ...
Orange County Register1mon
California’s employment safety net is still broken. Will anyone fix it?
Whether or not history will repeat itself is complicated by unanswered questions about what went wrong at the EDD during the pandemic and how the state scrambled to recover. Former California ...
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Why California workers will soon have a little more money taken out of their paychecks by the state
California workers will have a little more money ... Affairs Loree Levy in a written statement. State law allows the EDD and its director, Nancy Farias, to raise the rate based on a complicated ...
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California's job growth slows amid rising unemployment, economic uncertainty
California's unemployment rate from a year ago rose to 5.4% ... We gained only 11,000 jobs in the past month," said employment lawyer and former EDD Director Michael Bernick. Without substantial gains ...
California state auditor urges departments to tighten accounting controls
The Employment Development Department’s estimate of misspent unemployment dollars could have resulted in flawed financial ...